Paper basket.



Patented Dec. 30, I902.

J. F. DUNLEY. PAPER BASKET;

(Application filed Dec, 12, 1901.

(No Model.)

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(Application filed Dec. 12, 1901.)

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(No Model.)

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UNIT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES FRANCIS DONLEY, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

PAPER BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 717,362, dated December 30, 1902. Application filed December 12, 1901- Serial No. 85,684. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES FRANCIS DON LEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Buffalo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Paper Basket,of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to improvements in paper baskets.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of paper baskets for grapes, berries, and fruit, and to provide an exceedingly simple and inexpensive one, which will be reinforced at the corners and at the bottom and which will possess sufficient strength to enable it to sustain the weightof the baskets above it when it is packed in a car or other vehicle for transportation.

A further object of the invention is to provide a receptacle of this character which will be reinforced at both the sides and ends and which will be provided with top and bottom bands adapted to be readily secured to the basket.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure lis a perspective view of a grape-basket constructed in accord:

ance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the paper being partially folded. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the blank from which the body of the basket is constructed. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view of the reinforcing bottom piece. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of aberry-receptacle, illustrating a modification of the invention. Fig. 6 is a similar view, the blank being partially folded. Fig. 7 is a plan View of the blank. Fig. 8 is a detail view of the reinforcing bottom piece. Fig. 9 is an enlarged detail view of one of the corner-flaps.

Like numeralsof reference designate corresponding parts inall the figures of the drawings.

1 designates a pasteboard blank, from which the body of the basket is constructed, and 2 designates the bottom fold-line, the sides 3 and the ends 4 being bent upward on the said fold-line 2. The blank is provided adjacent to the ends with transverse cuts or incisions 4, which extend from the bottom 5,

and the latteris severed at its corners from the sides and ends by cuts or incisions 6 and 7, arranged at right angles and forming approximately triangular corner-flaps 8, which are bent upward and secured to the sides and converge at opposite sides of the blank to form tapering sides 3 and to provide lateral extensions or wings 9 at the ends. These lateral extensions or wings 9, which are formed integral with the ends, are arranged on the exterior of the sides 3, which are thereby overlapped and reinforced. The ends of the lateral extensions or wings abut against each other at the center of the sides of the basket, as shown at 10, when the basket is completed, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings. In forming the body or basket the sides are bent upward, as indicated in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings, and the ends are bent upward .and the laterally-extending wings are brought around the sides and cemented or otherwise secured thereto. Preparatory to folding the ends in this manner they are reinforced by supplemental end pieces 11, provided with upwardly-diverging side edges and cemented or otherwise secured to the inner faces of the ends. These tapering supplemental end pieces greatly stiffen and strengthen the basket at the ends thereof and enable them to sustain the weight of other baskets when packed in a car or other vehicle for transportation. In practice when the parts of the basket are secured together the end edges of the supplemental end pieces will abut against the end edges of the sides, and a reduced portion or layer of the material of the latter will be brought over the ends of the supplemental end pieces to form a smooth neat joint.

The tapering or triangular corner flaps 8, which are arranged within the basket, extend upward from the bottom of the same at opposite sides of the ends thereof and are cemented or otherwise secured to the'inner faces of the sides and to the supplemental reinforcing end pieces, and when the latter are not employed they will be secured directly to the ends of the basket. They greatly reinforce and support the basket at the corners and prevent the bottom from breaking away from the sides and ends at those points.

The basket is preferably provided at the top and bottom with bands formed by upper and lower strips 12 and 13, secured by suitable adhesive material to the ends of the basket and extending beyond the lateral wings of the same and having overlapped portions. These bands, which strengthen and support the walls of the basket, are adapted to be quickly and economically applied to the same. The bottom of the basket may be further reinforced by a supplemental bottom piece 14,

. provided with upwardly-extending side and end flanges 15 and 16, spaced apart at the corners, which are cutaway to form openings 17 for the upwardly-extending corner-flaps. The supplemental bottom piece is cemented or otherwise secured to the bottom of the basket and to the sides and ends of the same, and it greatly increases the strength of the bottom of the basket and effectually prevents the same from tearing out.

In Figs. 5 to 8, inclusive, of the drawings is illustrated a modification of the invention, and the receptacle shown in Fig. 5 is adapted for berries and is of substantially square form; but instead of making the receptacles oblong or square they may be of any similar shape. The blank 18 is folded on the dotted line 19 to form the bottom 20 and sides 21, and at each corner of the bottom it is provided with a lateral cut or incision 22. The bottom is also severed at the corners from the sides by cuts or incisions 23, arranged at right angles to each other and forming tapering triangular corner-flaps 24. The lateral cuts or incisions 22 form lateral extensions or wings 25, which overlap the adjacent sides, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 of the drawings-,Whereby the receptacle is reinforced entirely around the same. The basket or receptacle shown in Fig. 5 may be reinforced at the bottom by a supplemental piece 26, which is provided with upwardly-extending flanges 2'7, spaced apart at the corners to arrange them at opposite sides of the tapering corner-flaps,which are secured to the Walls of the basket similar to the flaps heretofore described; also, the basket or receptacle may be reinforced by bands similar to those heretofore described, and they can be arranged at the top or bottom or at both points.

It will be seen that by the construction herein shown and described paper baskets and analogous receptacles are greatly simplified, that the cost of construction is greatly decreased, and that they are reinforced and strengthened at the bottom, sides, ends, and corners. It will also be apparent that the receptacles are greatly stiffened and are adapted to be packed in cars and vehicles for transportation without injuring them.

The receptacles may be provided with any suitable cover, and any form of handle may be employed on those receptacles where handles are usually employed, and such handles may be detachable and applied to the baskets or other receptacles after they have reached their destination.

What I claim is 1. A paper receptacle having a body constructed of a single sheet of material provided with opposite cuts arranged at the corners of the receptacle and forming the sides and ends of the same, said sheet of material being also provided at the inner ends of the said cuts with short diverging cuts forming integral corner-flaps, substantially as described.

2. A paper receptacle having abody formed of a single sheet of material provided with opposite cuts converging outwardly and forming reduced sides and extended ends, said sheet of material being also provided'at the inner ends of the said cuts with short inwardly-diverging cuts forming integral corner-flaps, substantially as described.

3. Apaper receptaclehavingabody formed of a single sheet of material provided at the corners of the receptacle with outwardly-extending cuts or incisions and provided at the inner ends thereof with short inwardly-diverging cuts forming integral triangular corner-flaps, substantially as described.

4. A paper receptacle having a body formed of a single sheet of material provided with laterally-disposed cuts or incisions forming extensions or wings, said sheet of material being also provided at the inner ends of the cuts or incisions with short inwardly-diverging cuts forming integral triangular cornerfiaps, substantially as described.

5. A receptacle comprising a bottom, sides, ends provided with oppositely-disposed extensions or wings overlapping the sides and meeting thereat, and the supplemental end pieces arranged on the inner faces of the ends of the receptacle and adapted to stifien and support the receptacle, substantially as described.

6. A receptacle comprising a bottom, sides, ends provided with oppositely-disposed extensions or wings overlapping the sides, and the narrow strips secured to the ends and projecting beyond the extensions or wings to form overlapping side portions, said strips having their overlapped portions secured together to form a band, substantially as described.

7. A receptacle comprising a bottom, sides, ends having extensions or wings overlapping the sides, supplemental end pieces, cornerfiaps extending upward from the bottom and secured to the adjacent walls, and bands formed by strips having overlapping portions, substantially as described.

8. A receptacle composed of a bottom, side In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in 10 the presence of two witnesses.

JAMES FRANCIS DONLEY.

Witnesses FRANK OLEARY, AMELIA DONLEY. 

